addresses the central club: "Sans-culottes, rejoice! the blood of the
royal tiger has flowed in sight of his den! But full justice is not
yet done to the people There are still 500 among you deserving of the
tyrant's fate!"--He proposes on the 5th of February a revolutionary
tribunal for trying arrested persons in a revolutionary manner. "It
is the only way to force it (the Revolution) on royal and aristocratic
factionists, the only rational way to avenge the sovereignty of the
brave sans-culottes, who belong only to us."----Hydens, a national
commissioner adds: "Let 25,000,000 of Frenchmen perish a hundred times
over rather than one single indivisible Republic!"]

[Footnote 33116: Mallet du Pan, the last expression.]

[Footnote 33117: Buzot, 64.]

[Footnote 33118: Michelet, IV. 6 (according to an oral statement by
Daunou).--Buchez et Roux, 101 (Letter of Louvet to Roland): "At the
moment of the presentation of their petition against armed force
(departmental) by the so-called commissioners of the 48 sections of
Paris, I heard Santerre say in a loud tone to those around him,
somewhat in these words: 'You see, now, these deputies are not up to the
Revolution... That all comes from fifty, a hundred two hundred leagues
off; they don't understand one word you say!'"]

CHAPTER IV. PRECARIOUS SITUATION OF A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LOCKED UP
WITHIN A LOCAL JURISDICTION.

"Citizen Danton," wrote the deputy Thomas Paine,[3401] "the danger,
every day increasing, is of a rupture between Paris and departments.
The departments did not send their deputies to Paris to be insulted, and
every insult shown to them is an insult to the department that elected
them. I see but one effective plan to prevent this rupture taking place,
and that is to fix the residence of the Convention and of the future
assemblies at a distance from Paris.... I saw, during the American
Revolution, the exceeding inconvenience that arose from having the
government of Congress within the limits of any municipal jurisdiction.
Congress first resided in Philadelphia, and, after a residence of four
years, it found it necessary to leave it. It then adjourned to the State
of Jersey. It afterwards removed to New York. It again removed from
New York to Philadelphia, and, after experiencing in every one of these
places the great inconvenience of a government within a government,
it formed the project of building a town not within the limits of any
municipal jurisd